基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics; Reprint edition
页码：240 页
出版日期：2005年05月
ISBN：0141441038
条形码：9780141441030
装帧：平装
丛书名：Penguin Classics
外文书名：世界大战

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Famous for the mistaken panic that ensued from Orson Welles’s 1938 radio dramatization, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential of all science fiction works. The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. Naïve locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag—only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilization is under threat as powerful Martians build gigantic killing machines, destroying all life in their path with black gas and burning ray. The forces of Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they appear.

-Includes a newly established text, a full biographical essay on Wells, a list of further reading, and detailed notes
-Brian Aldiss’s introduction considers the novel’s view of religion and society
作者简介 H.G. Wells (1866–1946) was a professional writer and journalist who published more than a hundred books, including novels, histories, essays, and programs for world regeneration.
Brian Aldiss was named Grand Master of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
Andy Sawyer is a librarian at the University of Liverpool.
Patrick Parrinder has written on H. G. Wells, science fiction, and James Joyce.